Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to Show The Black List: Volumes 1 and 2

HARTFORD, CT.- The critically acclaimed multimedia project, The Black List: Volumes 1 and 2, comes to Hartford this summer in a film screening and a new exhibition presented jointly by The Amistad Center for Art & Culture and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Photographs from The Black List: Vol. 2 will be on view in The Amistad Center’s gallery at the Wadsworth Atheneum from July 11 through August 23. In addition, a special FREE screening of the HBO Documentary will be held in the Wadsworth’s Aetna Theater on July 15, at 7:00 pm. A post-film discussion with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the series’ photographer and filmmaker, will also be held on July 15. Admission is on a first come, first served basis.

Conceived of by Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell, a film critic and NPR correspondent, The Black List reveals the diverse experiences of being Black in America through a series of intimate interviews and portrait sessions with leading African American figures.

Greenfield-Sanders and Mitchell began the project in May 2006, seeking to create a documentary that would become a “book on black culture.” The Black: List Vol. 1 made its world premiere at 2008's Sundance Film Festival.